CeVIO Creative Studio

CeVIO is the collective name of a range of computer software projects, including Vision (digital signage) and Creative Studio (audio creation software). CeVIO was made to assist in the creation of user-generated content.^[1] It works via text-to-speech method.

Overview

It allows audio creation software for speech and voice synthesizing. Speech and Song are this program's main features. The Speech portion offers a large dictionary of words to which Sato Sasara, Suzuki Tsudumi, and Takahashi speak from and are accurate in the Japanese language, though you have the option to manually edit it yourself if need be. The Speech portion was created with help of the HTS method, this method is famous in the VOCALOID fanbase because this method created the online synthesizers Sinsy, Open J-Talk, Renoid Player, and many more. The Speech portion offers different types of voices for each character.

CeVIO Creative Studio's speech intonation can be controlled with three parameters: cheery, angry, and sad. Other things can be controlled as well, such as volume and speed of consonants and vowels.

It also offers a version called "CeVIO Creative Studio FREE". This is a free demo version of CeVIO available for download from CeVIO's website. Sato Sasara is the only voice available for use in this version. In the Free version, one was free to create tracks, insert lyrics, and add breaths to the end of notes, but even then those would get caught up in the end of her already automatically set breaths. Anything else would require external software but didn't really stop the choppiness of her vowel transitions.

In the commercial version, more options for fine-tuning became available. Fine-Tune Amplitude Timing, which allows editing of the choppiness. Pitch can be adjusted like before, but now pitch-bends are also able to be edited, along with vibrato and vibrato timing are also able to be edited. Most importantly, volume and dynamics can be edited. Gender factor is also available, which makes the voice less or more mature. The option to import MIDI's and .xml's is still present. The file extension also has changed from the free version's ".ccs" to ".csv".

On the 14th of November 2014, an upgrade "CeVIO Creative Studio S" was announced.^[2] On the November 19, 2014 the FREE version was discontinued.

On the 26th of January 2016, the software was upgraded to 2.0, the update included general bug fixes and improvements.

Products

CeVIO

• Sato Sasara (さとうささら), a female vocal capable of singing and speech.
• Suzuki Tsudumi (すずきつづみ), a female vocal capable only of speech.
• Takahashi (タカハシ), a male vocal capable only of speech.

1st PLACE

• ONE (オネ) is a female vocal capable of speech and singing. She was released on January 27, 2015. She is the second vocal in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project, the first being the Vocaloid IA.^[3] ONE initially received only a speaking voicebank, but a singing one was released on May 22, 2015.^[4]
• IA (イア) is a female vocal, originally released for VOCALOID3 as the first vocal in the "- ARIA ON THE PLANETES -" project. She will receive a talking CeVIO vocal.^[5] It was later confirmed that alongside the Vocaloid 4 version of IA, there was in development a talking English IA for CeVIO.^[6]

XING Inc.

• Akasaki Minato (赤咲湊) is the first member of the "Color Voice Series", a series of singing-only voicebanks by XING Inc. He is illustrated as a 25-year-old male representing the color red.^[7][8] He was released alongside Midorizaki Kasumi on February 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Kizaki Airi.
• Midorizaki Kasumi (緑咲香澄) is the second member of the series. She is illustrated as a 27-year-old female representing the color green. She was released alongside Akasaki Minato on February 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Shirosaki Yuudai.
• Ginsaki Yamato (銀咲大和) is the third member of the series. He is illustrated as a 50-year-old male representing the color silver. He was released alongside Kinzaki Koharu on March 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Kinzaki Koharu.
• Kinzaki Koharu (金咲小春) is the fourth member of the series. She is illustrated as a 52-year-old female representing the color gold. She was released alongside Ginsaki Yamato on March 19, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Ginsaki Yamato.
• Shirosaki Yuudai (白咲優大) is the fifth member of the series. He is illustrated as a 20-year-old male representing the color white. He was released alongside Kizaki Airi on April 23, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Midorizaki Kasumi.
• Kizaki Airi (黄咲愛里) is the sixth member of the series. She is illustrated as an 18-year-old female representing the color yellow. She was released alongside Shirosaki Yuudai on April 23, 2015. The vocal is a counterpart to Akasaki Minato.
• HAL-O-ROID (ハルオロイド・ミナミ) is a free vocal for the software with the voice of deceased Enka singer Haruo Minami.^[9]

Reception

In 2013 it won the MicrosoftⓇ Innovation Award 2013 award.^[10] It also won an award in the CEDEC Awards 2013 event, after receiving 300,000 downloads.^[11]

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